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Jewish News Foundation Taps 
New Board Members, VP
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att Friedman and Scott 
Eisenberg have been 
elected to the board of 
directors of the independent, non-
profit Detroit Jewish 
News Foundation. Their 
terms were effective Jan. 
1, 2019.
Friedman and 
Eisenberg are well 
regarded for their pro-
fessional and communal 
achievements.
Friedman is the 
co-founder of Tanner 
Friedman Strategic 
Communications, where 
he works directly with 
clients to develop and 
implement traditional 
and emerging commu-
nications strategies. He 
is a recognized commu-
nications leader who has 
helped guide organiza-
tions of all sizes through 
periods of change. 
He currently serves as 
chair of the Children’
s 
Hospital of Michigan 
Foundation Board of 
Trustees and on the 
boards of the Legacy 
Detroit Medical Center, 
the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame 
and the Detroit Regional Chamber 
Foundation. He also chairs the 
Regional Chamber’
s PR/Marketing 
Advisory Council and serves 
on the board of advisers for the 
ChadTough Foundation. He is 
a graduate of the S.I. Newhouse 
School of Public Communications 
at Syracuse University.
Eisenberg is a partner and 
co-founder of Amherst Partners, 
where he specializes in advising 
middle-market companies on 
restructurings, mergers, acquisi-
tions, financings, business valua-
tions, turnarounds and litigation 
support. He serves on the advisory 
board of the Stratford Cambridge 
private equity group and previously 
served on the advisory board of 

Princeton Capital.
Eisenberg is a past president of 
the Young Adult Division of the 
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan 
Detroit, a former member 
of Federation’
s Executive 
Committee and a past chair 
of its Finance Committee. 
He is also former treasurer 
of JVS, Hillel Day School 
of Metropolitan Detroit 
and past president of the 
American-Israel Chamber 
of Commerce of Michigan. 
He is a graduate of the 
University of Illinois and 
possesses an M.B.A. from 
Indiana University.
Additionally, current 
board member Larry Jackier 
was elected vice president 
of the Detroit Jewish News 
Foundation. Jackier is a 
past president of the Jewish 
Federation of Metropolitan 
Detroit and a recipient 
of its prestigious Fred M. 
Butzel Award. He has led 
myriad organizations and 
initiatives on behalf of the 
Detroit Jewish community 
and Israel. Jackier cur-
rently serves as chair of 
the International Board of 
Governors for the Technion-Israel 
Institute of Technology in Haifa. 
He is a graduate of the University 
of Michigan and Yale Law School.
The Detroit Jewish News 
Foundation is an independent, 501-
c-3 nonprofit entity governed by a 
15-member board. Among its ini-
tiatives is the open-access William 
Davidson Digital Archive of Jewish 
Detroit History, comprising more 
than 330,000 pages of content 
from the Detroit Jewish News and 
its predecessor publication, the 
Detroit Jewish Chronicle. Spanning 
more than 100 consecutive years, 
the archive is accessible via www.
djnfoundation.org and is part of 
the permanent collection of the 
University of Michigan’
s Bentley 
Historical Library. ■

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Scott Eisenberg

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